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pectinated in the male. Fore wings purple-brown clouded 

 with paler; upper stigmata pale, the orbicular margined 

 below and on each side by a deep black marking below 

 which is a short black streak. Hind wings very pale smoky- 

 brown. 



Autenno3 of the male pectinated with solid ciliated teeth, 

 the two rows set widely apart, purplish-brown ; palpi short, 

 densely tufted with long purple -brown scales, apical joint 

 rather long ; head purple-brown, a very prominent raised 

 tuft lies between the antennae ; thorax loosely covered with 

 long soft scales, purple-brown ; fascicles smoky-brown ; 

 abdomen dull brown with a purplish tinge ; lateral and 

 anal tufts spreading. Fore wings of rather even width, 

 costa gently curved ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 rather oblique, but almost straight to below the middle, 

 where it is full, and then rounded off ; dorsal margin nearly 

 straight ; colour purple-brown with paler clouds ; basal line 

 visible as two short, deep black streaks near the costa ; first 

 line slightly oblique and almost straight to near the costa, 

 where is a sharp angle, dark brown edged inwardly with 

 purplish-white 5 second line oblique but curved boldly back 

 before reaching the costa, dark brown edged outwardly with 

 purplish-white ; subterminal line of the same colour, sinuous 

 and rather obscure, outside it is a row of dark streaks on 

 the nervures ; orbicular stigma broad, rather flattened, 

 detached from the median nervure but spread broadly upon 

 the subcostal, paler than the ground colour and margined 

 with white ; reniform stigma very similar in colour and 

 margining ; the space in the discal cell from the first line 

 passing below the orbicular to the reniform stigma is deep 

 black, forming a most conspicuous marking, something like a 

 hatchet or a rough letter L; below it is an oblique deep 

 black streak extending from a faint indication of the clavi- 

 form stigma to the second line ; cilia purple-brown. Hind 

 wings very pale smoky-brown with a rather darker band 

 of the same along the hind margin ; cilia dusky yellowish- 



